The anti-abortion movement in Canada has been making a concentrated effort to get anti-abortion politicians (aka cons) into office, and it's making horrifying gains.
It's bad enough hearing about this shit happening so close to us. It better not migrate north, but there's plenty of folks trying to make it so.
The Supreme Court of Canada has ordered that a woman who was arrested for refusing to hold an escalator handrail in a Metro station in Laval, Que., be awarded $20,000 in damages. cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/…
> Bela Kosoian was at the Montmorency Metro station in 2009 when a police officer told her to respect a pictogram with the instruction "Hold the handrail."
> She was arrested, detained for 30 minutes and finally let go with two tickets: one for $100 for disobeying a pictogram and a $320 fine for obstructing the work of an inspector.
> Her suit was rejected by Quebec court in 2015 and by the Quebec Court of Appeal in 2017, which said Kosoian was the "author of her own misfortune."
Fuck Quebec, seriously
Luckily the Supreme Court is better
> The judges wrote in their decision that Kosoian was "entitled to refuse to obey an unlawful order and therefore committed no fault" in the case.
More than 750 front-line nurses are to be laid off under a "massive downsizing" at Alberta Health Services (AHS), the United Nurses of Alberta said Friday. cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/…
I think what they're essentially going for here is "that guy can't just make you do shit, you don't have to listen, especially since it isn't illegal to just ride an escalator"
Yes. An earlier version of the story, I think, made it clear that putting something on a sign doesn't magically make it some law cops can force you to follow
For instance, in the state of Ohio it is a misdemeanor to ignore safety related instructions given by ride operations staff at department of agriculture regulated rides